Hi all!
Due to the nice XBean documentation feature David depicted in his mails
I learned that the NTP configuration carries 12 values
bufferSize int
catalogBaseDn java.lang.String
enabled boolean
initialContextFactory java.lang.String
ipAddress java.lang.String
ipPort int
searchBaseDn java.lang.String
securityAuthentication java.lang.String
securityCredentials java.lang.String
securityPrincipal java.lang.String
serviceName java.lang.String
servicePid java.lang.String
Only some them seem te be used (ipPort, serviceName, servicePid), most
of them are not. Does it really make sense to derive NtpConfiguration
from a base ServiceConfiguration (javadoc: Base class shared by all
protocol providers for configuration.), if there are only a minoriry of
the attributes in common?
Maybe it is handy to have a common abstraction for all protocol provider
configurations. But if we generate the documentation from the beans, and
attributes are listed for NTP (or any other protocol) which are not used
at all (including the default documentation text), it will look quite
confusing to the users.
Perhaps we can introduce a base class called MinimalServiceConfiguration
and derive both NtpConfiguration and ServiceConfiguration (probably
other name) from it ...
Or do I miss something?
Greetings,
Stefan
